Shows Japanese people walking to the spring festival, views of cherry blossom trees, three men dance in park to music played by three other men. Film shot in approximately 1934-35.
Shows methodist mission Hirosaki boys school students exercise. Japanese boys in gym uniforms stretch and do exercises and calisthenics. Film shot approximately in 1934-35.
Emperor Hirohito (Emperor Shōwa) and Japanese and Western businessmen wearing straw boat hats pose together with military officers. View of Low Memorial Library at Columbia University in New York City. Japanese men meet an American couple inside the campus of Columbia University. Door reads “Japanese Government Railways Japan Tourist Bureau”. A man opens the door. Another man greets him. A Japanese businessman smokes a pipe and reads a Literary Digest magazine. An American couple meets the Japanese businessman. The businessman shows American man a document during their meeting. Map of Honshu, the central island of Japan, identifying the main produce and industries on the island. Smokestacks of a factory in Japan and view of homes and buildings in a city or town of Japan. Map of Central Japan showing its population below.
Shintoism, Buddhism and Confucianism are three main religions practiced in Japan during the Shōwa era. Japanese women teach their children how to perform the Chōzu-ya (a Shinto ritual for washing hands and mouth) using a water ladle at a chōzubachi (large water-filled basin) outside a Buddhist temple. Children and women wash their hands before entering temple. Japanese worshippers bow inside a Buddhist temple. A stone statue of Buddha outdoors. Women bow in front of the main altar. A group of Shinto priests posing outside a building.
Martial arts class in Methodist mission's Hirosaki Boys' School in Aomori, Japan. Two male students bow to each other before a Judo match in Hirosaki Boys’ School (13-1 Minori-cho Hirosaki-shi, Aomori 036-8231). The two students engage in a Judo match. Other students sit on the side while watching the match. They bow to each other again after the end of Judo match.
Students carrying trophies line up along the school principal for a photograph shoot at the Hirosaki Boys’ School in Aomori Prefecture, Japan (13-1 Minori-cho Hirosaki-shi, Aomori 036-8231). The Japanese school principal of the Methodist Mission's Hirosaki Boys school smiles on camera. The principal meets students. The principal and the students pump their arms in unison as they do the Banzai cheer together. activities everyday activities like study and discussion by teachers are shown. The Japanese principal in graduation gown stands by the doorway. Japanese boy at desk writing on a banner. The boy smiles at the camera. Shot approximately in 1934-35.